Word: infantryman
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...audience also heard a clear-cut conception of a U.S. infantryman's job: And that's the way it goes with the infantry. Some take the final count . . . some get wounded, but the rest keep right on fighting. You learn how much blood you have to pay for fifty-odd yards of battle-scarred mud. Real estate is expensive when you're in the Infantry. And there's nothing but fighting . . . hard fighting, dirty fighting. No silver wings for the girl back home to wear . . . no crash helmet to wear like a tank driver . . . no fancy...
From the German rear, 88-mm. guns coughed heavily in reply. A lieutenant on the rocky ridge pulled a U.S. infantryman down, saying curtly: "A man lying down looks like a rock. A man standing up looks like...
Part of the trouble was the traditional conflict between airman and ground officer: Brigadier General Claire Lee Chennault, brilliant, unorthodox genius of the world's smallest fighting air force, had fallen out with his commander, Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell Jr., homely infantryman hero of the 1942 retreat from Burma...
...Vinegar Joe," an infantryman through & through, is in the anomalous position of having nothing but air-force troops to command in China. Chennaultmen say that honest Joe Stilwell has taken his command literally, has countermanded Chennault's orders on occasion, on others has dispatched flyers to raid points which Chennault did not think should be raided at the time...
...infantryman's weapon, which on the basis of tests may make obsolete many another weapon in the arsenals of the world, was also shown...